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Orshi Drozdik - Adventures in Technos Dystopium - Work, writings, exhibitions 1970–1995
2024
English edition
MER. Books
A comprehensive overview of the Hungarian post-conceptual and feminist artist's practice in the first decades of her fifty-year long career, including several of her writings.
Fouad Elkoury - Cinema Cairo Palace - A Journey into Egyptian Cinema – 1985-1996
2024
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
The images shot on Egyptian film sets by prominent photographer Fouad ElKoury over more than a decade capture the essence of Arab cinema.
 Hackney Flashers - Parents Must Unite + Fight - Hackney Flashers: Agitprop, Labor and Socialist Feminism in England
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
The first monograph dedicated to the Hackney Flashers collective, a group of nine activist women who engaged in agitprop from 1974 to 1980 in the working-class neighborhood of Hackney in London.
Eva Hesse - Transatlantique
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Seven European women artists (Katinka Bock, Claire-Jeanne Jézéquel, Rachel Labastie, Mélanie Matranga, Juliette Minchin, Valérie Mréjen, Agnès Thurnauer) brought together by Sébastien Gokalp share their views on Eva Hesse (1936–1970), a major figure of the 20th century.
Moshtari Hilal - Hierarchies of Solidarity
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Wirklichkeit Books
A revelatory conversation that, grounded in lived experience, traces the racist structures of the discourse landscape and offers alternative ways of understanding solidarity.
Louise Lawler -
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
Conceived as a catalogue and an artist's book, the publication offers a deeper insight into the eponymous 2022 exhibition staged at Indipendenza Roma, and explores tensions that can be generated between artworks and their surrounding architectural context, raising questions of taste, value, function and decoration.
Jimmy Robert - The Man Who Envied Women
2024
English edition
Bierke
Retrospective monograph.
Sandra Schäfer - Contested Landscapes
2024
English edition
Archive Books
Contested Landscapes is dedicated to different rural regions—their landscapes, their producers, and their work. The paths of the family of the artist Sandra Schäfer and those of the famous German photographer August Sander cross in the Westerwald, a rural area in Germany shaped by farming and mining.
Eva Taulois - Paravents
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
First monograph: an exploration of the thought of the exhibition in relation to its spaces, contexts, and encounters.
James Tenney - Postal Pieces (vinyl LP)
2024
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
The first ever vinyl release to attend to James Tenney's legendary "Postal Pieces", marking the first ever appearance of five of the suite's works on vinyl, drawing upon recordings made in 2003, by the Amsterdam based ensemble, The Barton Workshop, under the direction of James Fulkerson.
Air de repos (Breathwork) (book + vinyl LP)
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
A double vinyl and a catalogue that constitute a proper extension of the exhibition with which the Capc in Bordeaux continues to question the forms that the museum can take, with the aim of creating a renewed awareness of what it means to breathe, both on an individual and collective level, at a time when the world is living in a climate of generalized asphyxia.
Faire – To look at things - Mechanical Translations
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
This double issue of the critical graphic design journal examines the origins of the automation and mechanization of translation and writing.
The Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib uns unsere Schuld - Of (Un)Real Frontiers, Of (Im)Moralities and Other Transcendences
2024
English edition
Archive Books
The Forgive Us Our Trespasses Reader explores radical and emancipatory significations and fabulations of trespassing, turning towards practices that transgress and reshape the boundaries of, among other dimensions, currency, governance, religion, spirituality, language, and artificial intelligence.
Louis Ucciani - Essais d\'esthétiques new-yorkaises
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A philosopher's journey into the heart of New York artistic life.
Visible – Art as Policies for Care - Socially Engaged Art (2010-Ongoing)
2024
English edition
Nero
currently out of stock
Comprehensive documentation on 43 outstanding socially committed artistic projects over the past twenty years.
Border-Listening / Escucha-Liminal - Volume 3
2024
English edition
Contingent Sounds
currently out of stock
A collective exploration of sound, music and the socio-political dimensions of listening, from researchers and artists with perspectives from the global South.
Christina Kubisch - Stromsänger (vinyl LP)
2024
Important Records
currently out of stock
Christina Kubisch's Stromsänger finds this legendary sound artist at the top of her game mixing electromagnetic wave recordings with a score for six voices, creating powerful results. Stromsänger is based on a collaboration with the Norwegian vocal ensemble Trondheim Voices and on a special experience while researching and recording electromagnetic waves in the city of Trondheim.
New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media (vinyl LP)
2024
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
sold out
The first ever vinyl reissue of the seminal "New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media", from 1977, arguably the most important feminist statement in the history of experimental music, illuminating the work of Johanna M. Beyer, Annea Lockwood, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Megan Robert, Ruth Anderson, and Laurie Anderson.
Ben Vida - Vocal Trio (vinyl LP)
2024
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
sold out
Creatively visionary and groundbreaking on numerous terms, as well as being intoxicatingly beautiful and remarkably listenable, Ben Vida's "Vocal Trio" represents a striking step forward for one of the most ambitious and outstanding sonic artists working in the United States today.
Jason Hirata - Supporting Role
2024
English edition
Reliable Copy
A collection of the artist's writings from 2019 to 2024.
Stefan Prins - Inhabit (2 CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
The second release by Stefan Prins on Sub Rosa brings together four recent, large-scale compositions in which traditional instruments—from bass woodwind trio to electric guitar and symphonic orchestra—merge seamlessly with electronics, feedback, and field recordings.
Cally Spooner - Sweat Shame Etc.
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
Across objects, writing, sound and choreography, British artist Cally Spooner addresses the manners in which specific technological and financial conditions shape and organize life. This volume surveys her artistic output of the last five years.
Mark Templeton - Two Verses (vinyl LP)
2024
Faitiche
Canadian experimental artist Mark Templeton revisits and revives his sound archives with Andrew Pekler.
Vincent Valdez - Just a Dream...
2024
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
X Artists' Books
Retrospective monograph.
e-flux Index
2024
English edition
e-flux Index
76 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists, published by e-flux between April–May 2024, arranged into 11 thematic chapters—ranging from the live question of cultural censorship through to the role of diagrams and notation in contemporary artistic practice.
Lalie Thébault Maviel - Notre pain quotidien
2024
no text
Tombolo Presses
currently out of stock
An edition like an archaeology of our more or less contemporary iconography of bread. A lacunary and subjective encyclopedia that reflects its presence in our lives and its political, social, economic, and aesthetic evolutions (artist's book).
Between a Romanticised Past and a Not Yet Redeemed Future - Urbane Künste Ruhr 2018-2023
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The nine printed issues of the Urbane Künste Ruhr Magazine from 2019 to 2023 create an experimental publication in bound form that documents the institution's projects over the entire period.
Artforum - October 2024
2024
English edition
Artforum
Garrett Bradley, Maija Peeples-Bright, Tarik Kiswanson, Matthew Barney, Charles Atlas, Tracey Emin...
Soldes
2024
French edition
Soldes Almanac
An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.
VISIO - Moving Images in Europe Since the 2010s
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
This volume brings together visions, experiences and critical interdisciplinary methodologies that have been instrumental in the development of the language of moving images since 2010.
Francesco Arena - Der Blitz steuert alles / Il fulmine governa ogni cosa
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
A complete documentation of a site-specific project conceived by Francesco Arena, allowing to get more into the heart of the artist's creative process.
Crys Cole - Making Conversation (vinyl LP)
2024
Black Truffle
Crys Cole's third solo release for the Black Truffle label, Making Conversation documents a different facet of her work, presenting three rigorously conceptualised commissioned pieces, each of which extend her signature approach to highly amplified small sounds into new directions.
Judith Eisler - Center of the Frame
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
Judith Eisler's first monograph, bringing together paintings made between 1997 and 2024, featuring an essay by Kirsty Bell, an introduction by Christopher Bollen, and an interview with Wade Guyton.
Éléonore False - Ensembles
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
First monograph.
Spencer Gerhardt - Ticking Stripe
2024
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
A new collection of writings by the composer and mathematician Spencer Gerhardt, considering among other topics the rich points of contact between minimalist musical aesthetics and intuitionistic mathematics.
Ingo Giezendanner - Mille Feuilles
2024
no text
Nieves
Ingo Giezendanner's wild herbarium.
Anne Houel - Tobrouk
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
Anne Houel's first book is dedicated to the monumental sculpture Tobrouk, installed on Ouistreham's Riva-Bella beach for one year in 2023, then moved to the Musée d'Art, Histoire et Archéologie in Évreux.
Jihye Jung - Resterenvie
2024
French edition
Zero2
The diary of the Korean-born artist based in France.
Klara Lewis - Thankful (vinyl LP)
2024
Editions Mego
Klara Lewis' latest offering is undoubtedly a heartfelt tribute to her friend, mentor and former label boss, Peter Rehberg.
 Mazza Vision - Ohm Spectrum (CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
The first album of this new digital-drone-rock-noise/ambient/electronica project created by two founding members of Tone Rec and DAT Politics (Claude Pailliot - Gaetan Collet). Inspirational collision of motorik avant rock and heavy electronics.
 Morvandiau - Vigil
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
A drawn chronicle of sleepless nights, Vigil brings together over one hundred and sixty drawings by the artist.
 Rubbish Music - Fatbergs (CD)
2024
Persistence of Sound
The second album by Rubbish Music (Kate Carr and Iain Chambers), the duo upcycling waste into immersive electroacoustic music.
Katharina Schilling - Sand is Water You Can walk On
2024
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The artist book Sand is Water You Can walk On by Katharina Schilling brings together the series of paintings of the same name with texts by the authors Eva Hegge, Miriam Stoney and Sophia Eisenhut. In her series of works, Schilling refers to Gothic illuminations, an early form of painting that tells of a time before the concept of the subject.
 So Sner - The Well (vinyl LP)
2024
TAL
The second album by the duo So Sner, composed of Susanna Gartmayer (bass clarinet) and Stefan Schneider (electronics), both stylistically cohesive and daringly uncompromising.
Erik Steinbrecher - Gopf
2024
no text
various
Artist's book.
Skye Arundhati Thomas -
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
In this first critical volume and biography of the Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi (1932–2023), author Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi's archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist's character and path.
 Winter Family - On Beautiful Days (vinyl LP)
2024
Sub Rosa
Winter Family's 4th album, beautiful and haunting, tells a lot of stories; that of the musicians themselves and their loved ones, those of their territories, of their life in Jerusalem, Paris or Lorraine; that of women, "witches", conspiracy myths; that of capitalist and colonialist Europe; that of the blindness and violence of Israeli society and the indoctrination of its population; that of the occupation of Palestine; that of eternal lockdown and a laboratory rat; and maybe yours, too.
 Winter Family - On Beautiful Days (CD)
2024
Sub Rosa
Winter Family's 4th album, beautiful and haunting, tells a lot of stories; that of the musicians themselves and their loved ones, those of their territories, of their life in Jerusalem, Paris or Lorraine; that of women, "witches", conspiracy myths; that of capitalist and colonialist Europe; that of the blindness and violence of Israeli society and the indoctrination of its population; that of the occupation of Palestine; that of eternal lockdown and a laboratory rat; and maybe yours, too.
Faire – To look at things - A calculated approach: Norm\'s unreasonable reasonableness
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
The 46th issue of the critical graphic design journal is devoted to the Zurich-based graphic design studio Norm.
Le chant des sirènes / Il canto delle sirene
2024
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Empire - Books
30 artists and 10 authors talk about water.
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